We all do things we do not want to do
Today I used my fingernails to scrape
away the skin from my chest cracked three of
my own ribs chose the rib with the most jagg-
ed edge to deflate a lung to tear out
my young blonde heart and leave her on a plane
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I’m crying.
Powerful poem–how you make yourself the weapon you use against yourself.